THE READERS’ DICTIONARY OF SAILING SHIP TERMINOLOGY ___________________________________________________________________________ THE READERS’ DICTIONARY OF SAILING SHIP TERMINOLOGY ___________________________________________________________________________ 92 93 THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF PETER TURNER THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF PETER TURNER ©2024 If any reader can provide information, please send to galf@abandos.com If any reader can provide information, please send to galf@abandos.com Haar - Habergeon - Habitaculum - Original ancient name for the binnacle. Hack - Hackett's stations - (tge) Hackle - To comb out straight the fibres when making rope, by means of a hackle-board. From this came the phrase 'to make ones hackles rise'. Hackmatack - Hardwood CTC Hackster - Hack watch - See Deck watch. Hadal depths - Hell ? Hadley's quadrant - An instrument used to measure angles using the double-reflection principle, with an arc of 45o, invented by John Hadley in 1731. Hagboat - Hag’s teeth – Loose strands of rope protruding from a badly made paunch mat. Hail (vb) - 1. To call or salute a ship from another, by means of a hailer (verbally). 2. Said of a person's origins: 'He hailed from ...'. Hailing - SMS Hakluyt - Hakluyt Society - Halberd - A kind of spear, about 6 feet long, with a head that could be used for thrusting or cutting. Also called a Bill. Halcyon - Hale - Haul, "Hale and How", "Hoise and Hale" Hales Ventilator - Half - Half a point, i.e. 5 5/8 degs Half a dog watch - A very short period of time. Half-and-half – The equal share out of the profits from a fishing vessel, from the owner getting half and the crew getting the other half. Half beam - A beam cut to form a hatchway. Half beams - Half board - When a ship is turned up into the wind, as if about to tack, but falls off again on the same tack, the manoeuvre was called 'half board' SMS Half-boom - SMS Half-boom spreaders - SMS Half breadth plan - A plan drawn from a vessel’s centre line to one of its sides, detailing bow, futtock and water lines at various draughts. 03.01 Half breadth staff - A wooden rod marked in half lengths of beams, used for measuring a vessel. Half crown – A small bight made in a rope or line, with a crossing or riding turn and seized; used in the middle of back ropes and passing round the end of the dolphin striker or put into sail ropes. Also chinkle. Half deck - A deck above the main deck that does not continue for the whole length of the vessel. Sometimes used to refer to those parts of the upper and lower decks used for officers' accommodation. Half decker - Half floor - One of the timbers extending from the keel to the lower end of the second futtock. Half Four(etc) - In soundings =4 1/2 fathoms Half hitch – A knot made by passing the end of the rope over the standing part, through the bight and laying it up to the standing part. Half-legged reef points - SMS Halfleaguer - Half Mast - Half Minute Glass - Half Pay - Half pigs - (tge) Half poop - A poop deck that is not as tall as a man. Half port - A cover over half a gun port, cut away to accommodate a gun barrel. Half sea – The ancient term for mid-channel. Half seas over - Seamen's slang for being nearly drunk. Half shot - Another seamen's slang for being nearly drunk. Half Sovereign - Half-sprit - Long standing gaff without boom Half Sword - Half tide – The water level, or time, halfway between high and low water. Half tide rock – A rock that is submerged at high tide but visible at low tide. Half timber - A short futtock used in vessel's with rounded or angled bottoms, instead of flat. Halicore - Haliography - Halley, Edmond - Worked out why the winds blow as they do, in late 17c. Halliard, Halyard, Haulyard - The rope and tackle used to haul a sail, yard or spar. Halliard winch - A simple single drum winch used to replace a purchase on a halliard. Halse - Hawse. Halser - Hamattan Wind - Hamber-line - Hamble, The - Hambro line – A line made of six, nine or twelve strands used to strengthen reef holes. Hammacoes - Hammocks. Hammer & Anvil - Sport in which Man 1 gets on all fours and Man 2 is swung by his arms and legs to hit Man 1 base to base, thus sending Man 1 flying along the deck. Hammerlock moor - SMS Hammock – A hanging bed made of canvas suspended from the deck beams by clews at each end, used by seamen. Hammocks were first introduced to ships by Columbus after he saw them in the new world in late 15c. Hammock clews – A number of lengths of nettle stuff attached to each end of a hammock, by which it was suspended from the deck beams. Hammock cloth – A tarpaulin cover to the hammock netting. Hammock cranes and netting - Hammock lashing – Ropes lashed around a hammock when not in use, to secure it. Hammock netting - Rows of netting along a warship's sides and at the breaks of quarterdecks and forecastles, in which the crews tightly rolled navigational calculations. Gunter's sector - A pair of hinged rulers used for solving trigonometrical problems without tables. Gunwale - This was the uppermost strake on a ship's side, but in modern times has come to refer to the upper edge of the bulwark. Also gunnel. Gun Wharf Gurry - Glutinous substance on whale skin. Gush - See Gust. Gusset plate - A flat plate fastened at a joint, and so shaped to suit, to make the connection and for strength. Gust - An increase in a wind, of very short duration. Gut, The - Gibraltar Bay. Gut, Ghut - Strait Street in Valetta, Malta. Gut – A narrow strait. Gutter bar - An angle bar that forms the inboard side of a deck waterway. Gutter-ledge - A cross-bar running fore-and-aft across large hatchways, to support the covers. Gutter-way - The channel formed between the gunwale and the gutter-angle on the upper deck. Guy – 1. A rope used to steady a heavy load whilst it is being hoisted. 2. A rope rigged to give lateral control of a boom. 3. The rope extending from the mainmast to the foremast of a merchantman, onto which blocks were suspended for hoisting cargo goods. Guy pendants - (ecr) Guys - SMS Gybe – (v) To move a boom-sail from one side of the mast to the other when sailing before the wind. Gyp – To gut a fish. H Hammocks and Hulks
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